Wednesday assorted links

1. Lydia Polgreen on Dubai and migration (NYT, a good series from her, ongoing).

2. Open Philanthrpy is starting an Abundance and Growth program.

3. New Will MacAskill project.

4. Co-Reader.

5. “One in four new recruits to the German armed forces drops out within six months of joining, according to the nation’s military watchdog who warned that personnel shortages were pushing troops “to breaking point”.” (FT)

6. Martin Casado on AGI and employment.

7. “Johns Hopkins has bet very heavily on a century and a quarter of partnership with the federal government.” (WSJ)

8. NASA’s most extreme acronym?

9, Downside of America.